Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

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Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks
Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a…

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